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ALJASSAR: Opt-out organ donation saves lives
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily Five-year survival rates among those who receive transplanted organs are auspicious; according to figures from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, over 80 percent of those who receive a kidney from a deceased donor remain alive after five … |
Three Ethical Ways to Increase Organ Donation in AustraliaPractical Ethics (blog)In a forthcoming paper in Monash Bioethics Review we outline three possible policy changes that could substantially increase procurement rates from deceased donors. The pr…
SFGate9-way kidney swap involving 18 surgeries at 2 SF hospitalsSFGateUCSF, which performs about 350 transplants a year from both living and deceased donors, has completed the highest number of paired exchanges nationally in the past year: 28 since Jun…
Engadget |
Scientists are one step closer to growing replacement limbs
Engadget Rather than building a fresh arm, the decel/recel process requires scientists to decellularize organs from deceased donors. As New Scientist describes it, that means washing a forearm from a previously expired rodent until just the “scaffold” remains. First biolimb ever: Rat forearm grown in labRedOrbit First steps taken for regenerating whole limbsMedical News Today Scientists Use Cell Regeneration To Create Transplantable LimbsRegal Tribune WallStreet OTC all 103 news articles » |
The Conversation AU |
Three ethical ways to increase organ donation in Australia
The Conversation AU Currently, a decision to sign up to the Australian Organ Donor Register is largely meaningless. Unless an objection is noted on the register, the decision about whether a deceased’s organs will be donated is left to family members. Last year, family … |
Ottawa Sun |
Eugene Melnyk discharged from hospital
Ottawa Sun … news conference at the Canadian Tire Centre where club president Cyril Leeder made a “urgent” public plea for a living donor to find a match for Melnyk, who had a rare AB blood type and wasn’t going to have any success on the deceased donors list. Senators owner Eugene Melnyk released from hospitalOttawa Citizen |
MedPage Today |
State Efforts to Promote Organ Donation Mostly Fizzle
MedPage Today Notably, that effect was driven by deceased donor rather than living donor transplants, “which may indicate that such funds are being targeted toward the improvement of clinical practices to optimize the organ procurement process at the time of … Editorial: US Organ Donation System Needs ‘Disruptive Innovation’Monthly Prescribing Reference (registration) State policies needed to hike organ donationBoston Herald |
CP24 Toronto’s Breaking NewsWinnipeg girl, 11, gets liver transplant in TorontoCP24 Toronto’s Breaking NewsEleven-year-old Allexis Siebrecht, who was born with a rare liver disease, was told late Saturday night that a liver was available from a decease…
WBURU.S. Organ-Donor System Needs Overhaul: StudyHealthDayRevenue policies were also associated with a nearly 5 percent increase in the number of deceased donors per capita and an 8 percent increase in the number of transplants of organs from deceased …
National Post |
Sam Marr: Organ donation should be the ‘new normal’
National Post There is no queue for living donors. The queue is for deceased donors and that line is too long. A living donor is typically motivated to save a particular person either because the donor knows the ill person or knows their story. If no individual was … |